Sweet! I talked to a buddy at work about this the other day and then promptly forgot. Think I will spin up a new world for kicks this weekend. I wonder what the new materials and replacement for corruption will be like.

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An old silent pond... A frog jumps into the pond, splash! Silence again.

There is a game currently in beta called Starbound that is very similar to Terraria but it involves space travel and multiple planets etc. Only thing I don';t like about it right now is where its in beta they sometimes have to wipe save data. Something worth checking out though

When it comes to sitting around not doing anything for long periods of time, only being active for short windows, and marginal changes and sidegrades I'd say FFXI players were the perfect choice for politicians.

I was thinking it might be fun to play a game with some friends where everyone made hardcore characters (deleted upon death) starting from scratch with the goal of building a base and defeating all the game's bosses. Between myself, my wife, her 9 year old daughter and two friends, no one survived for more than 45 minutes, after which one friend proceeded to use some program to spawn in all the best items/armor in the game and it stopped being fun very quickly.

I'm hoping Starbound isn't like Terraria in terms of single player items being stored on the character itself to be transferred to online play.

I'm hoping Starbound isn't like Terraria in terms of single player items being stored on the character itself to be transferred to online play.

If you use a character you've played elsewhere your items come with you when you do server play. At least the time I tried it.

LockeColeMA wrote:

I'm interested in Starbound, but not at $15 for a constantly-wiped Beta. I was hoping it would go on sale during Steam's winter sale, but no luck

Yeah, it will be 5 bucks or less in 3 months or less, I'm sure. Then in a bundle within 6-8 months.

I got suckered in by the fact that it was xmas and they had a 4 pack and it was on 3 of my steam friends' wish lists. So, easy gift.

Edited, Jan 13th 2014 10:35am by Olorinus

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lolgaxe wrote:

When it comes to sitting around not doing anything for long periods of time, only being active for short windows, and marginal changes and sidegrades I'd say FFXI players were the perfect choice for politicians.